AN AFFORDABLE SMART PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING ALL THE DAILY TASKS BLIND PEOPLE NEED
Abdelrahman Rashad Abdelrahman, Aya Khaled Yousef, Nadia Abd-Alsabour, Abdelrahman Rashad Abdelrahman, Aya Khaled Yousef, Nadia Abd-Alsabour · Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University · 2023
This article introduces comprehensive smart wearable glasses capable of performing all the basic tasks required by blind and visually impaired people daily. This is to help them in all aspects of life, including education, moving alone, as they can communicate, read, and learn. It encourages them to get into various fields. Hence, it makes their lives much better and easier through various essential functions. These functions are: recognizing Egyptian currencies, detecting the most important and frequently used objects (to simplify their communication, and later can be increased easily based on their needs) around the camera, measuring the safe distance in front of the user to walk safely without obstacles (within 5 meters, so that the user does not need to use a cane) and then notifies him, reading text files, extracting the text from any image, recognizing facial expressions, image captioning, reading Arabic text and convert it into Arabic voice, translating English text into Arabic voice, and detecting motion around the user. Also, this proposed device can be employed anywhere without worrying about charging. Furthermore, it is very affordable to suit poor persons or who live in developing countries. Keywords: Recognizing Egyptian Currencies, Convolutional Neural Network, Recognizing Facial Expressions, Image Captioning, Reading and Translating Text Files DOI： https://doi.org/10.35741/issn.0258-2724.58.4.10